Microsoft’s head of venture has resigned
Chris Young, Microsoft’s head of business development and its venture unit, resigned from his role on Wednesday, the company said. Young led Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, and was what’s known…
Microsoft’s big Patch Tuesday fixes over twice as many security flaws as usual
Yesterday was January’s big Patch Tuesday, where Microsoft rolled out a big bundle of security updates across several apps and services, eliminating 159 security vulnerabilities. This is the most extensive…
Microsoft’s wins, fails, and WTF moments of 2024
Microsoft’s best and worst of 2024, not surprisingly, centered around AI. When Microsoft was trying to force Copilot upon us, it didn’t go so well. But when it used AI…
Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $100M valuation seed round
Late last year, Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage…
Windows and Office get smart: An overview of Microsoft’s AI services
In the last two years, Microsoft has invested a lot of money in the ChatGPT inventor Open AI and in its own AI developments. Since then, Microsoft has been equipping…
Microsoft’s new-look Xbox app integrates Game Pass features
TL;DR Microsoft’s updated Xbox app will integrate Game Pass features to unify the two apps. The updated app will first be rolling out this week to Xbox beta members on…
Microsoft’s new Windows App lets you access your PC from anywhere
Yesterday, Microsoft announced in a blog post that Windows App has finally been released to the general public and is available for Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and web browsers. In…
Microsoft’s Photos app is getting a quick image search feature
Microsoft just announced that the latest update for the Photos app in Windows will introduce a new image search feature. As of right now, the update is rolling out to…
Every Windows user should read Microsoft’s latest webpage
Microsoft recently published a new webpage called “System configuration tools in Windows” that lists and explains the most important built-in Windows system tools for configuring your PC. Microsoft describes the…
Microsoft’s consumer Teams dreams are fading, thankfully
Editor’s Note: Microsoft began shipping its unified Teams experience beginning on August 20, 2024. While Teams will eventually update itself to deliver the unified experience, you can also download the…